JUST HALF-WAY

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21066, 10 April 1943, Page 2

JUST HALF-WAY

PATRIOTIC QUOTA EAST COAST COUNCIL £11,656 PAID IN SO FAR Payments made by the six zone committees in the East Coast Provincial Patriotic Council’s area during the current patriotic year total £11.650. or just over half of the quota of £23,800 allocated to the East Coast council for the year. This was reported to the council meeting yesterday afternoon by the lion, treasurer, Mr. M. J. White, who ■stated that £7OOO had been remitted to the National Patriotic Fund Board. Zone quotas and payments made up to the date ol' the meeting were given by Mr. White as follows: Quota Paid In

Totals £23,800 £11,050 Mr. D. J. McNaught reported that the full Matakaoa quota was already in sight. At the meeting, a motion of condolence was passed with the relatives of the late Mr. W. Barrington Miller, the chairman, Mr I. J. Quigley, staling that apart from his support of various projects in the town, Mr. Miller was a liberal contributor to patriotic funds and anything for the benefit of returned soldiers, the establishment of the Miller trust being one of his tokens of generosity. Those present at the meeting were Mr I. J. Quigley, chairman; Mesdames P. J. Taylor (Matakaoa) and It. LJ. Burke. Messrs. W. F. Metcalfe (Matakaoa), D. J. McNaught (Matakaoa), A. G. Hicks (Waiapu), 11. L. Tempest (Uawa), J. G. Appleton (Waikohu), F. T. Robinson (Cook), F. Tolcrton, Jas. Chrisp, M. J, White (hon. treasurer), and W. M. Jenkins (hon. secretary). Recent Donations Donations from February 1 to March 3! were reported as follows:—N.Z. Railways, £2 (3s lid; Waiapu Zone, £1: Waikohu Zone, £5 2s Cd; S.C.R., £26 JUs 4d; Cook Zone, £127 12s 9d ; Te Hapara Sewinjr Circle, £6 6s 9d; Gisborne-East Coast Bowling Centre, £4 7s; Post and Telegraph Department, £3; J. H. Bull, £1 10s; N.Z. Railways, £2 13s Gd; Waikohu Zone, £l3 2s 6d; Thos. Todd, £10; Waiapu Zone, £273 ; Matakaoa Zone, £242 Is 4d; Matakaoa Zone, £152 9s 7d; Te Hapara Sewing Circle, £3 7s; Gisborne Zone, £400; N.Z. Railways, £2 13s 3d; Te Hokowhitu-o-tu Maori Commission, £3 10s; Cook Zone, £1042 11s lid; Waiapu Zone, £130; Matakaoa Zone, £SO 4s Id; Cook Zone, £235 0s Gd; Gisborne Zone shop, £l7 10s Sd; Kanakanaia shop, £4 15s; Haiti shop, £3B; Rore shop, £SO 30s 3d; Motu-Rakauroa shop, £66 15s lid; Miss Brookins, £2 10s; Craill family, £10; Patutnhi sports, £267; Tiniroto sheep drive, £2B; Waimata sheep drive, £SB; Nsatapa sports, £230; Estate John Tombleson. £5; J. C. Field (Makiri), £25; M. D. Ansland, £2 2s; W. Bowes, ss; F. C. Briant, £1 Is; J. Campbell, £5 ss; H. Campbell. £1 : E. Costaiu, os Gd; W. Domnn, 10s; G. F. Dods, £6; A. Falconer, 10s Gd; B. Fitzgerald, £5; J. E. Hills, £5; J. T. Hamilton. £1 Is; li. R. Lyons, £1 Is; E. Lonnie, £1; Mrs. M. Muir, £6; W. Nevormau, £1 Is; G. A. Pnpworth, £2 2s; J. Saddler. £1; A. T. Smith. £5 ; G. J. White. £5; R. A. White, £5; Mrs. H. M. White, £5; 11. M. White, £5; A. M. White. £5; J. Costain, 10s; M. Lennio, £1; B. A. Campbell, ss; R. Gilman, 10s; D. C. Wapner, £2 2s; A. Hills, £2; D. Campbell, £1; R. Papum, 10s; R. Maxwell, £1; S. Maxwell, 10s; J. Maxwell, 10s: W. Amai, £1; D. Brown, 30s 2d: J. Manuka, 2s; C. Amai, 10s: Raiitu Pitau, 10s; Kohi, £1; Mrs. Papuni, 10s; M. Wade, £5.

Gisborne .. 9282 3011 Cook .. 6420 4077 Waiapu . . 2856 1626 Waikohu .. 8094 1079 Uawa .. 1190 058 IVfatakaoa . . 952 005